Quotes About Fulfillment

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Van zijn wieg tot zijn afwezige graf was de blijdschap die hij had verspreid steeds toegenomen. Eerst, bij zijn geboorte, waren alleen zijn ouders blij; later maakte hij het hele Duitse volk blij, vervolgens ook het Oostenrijkse; en toen hij stierf was de hele mensheid blij…

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

You know when people can get excited over the ordinary things in life, they live

Beautiful women were there to be wanted, of course. To men, they often seemed to be there for no other reason. But how many of the men who actually got one stayed happy afterwards? Not many, unless Chaim missed his guess. He knew too well he wasn't. What were you supposed to do? Turn into a queer?

The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

organizations need to shift their emphasis from getting more out of people to investing more in them, so they are motivated—and able—to bring more of themselves to work every day.

Wherever there's a happy vacuum caused by an absence of misery, human beings rush in to fill it.

envision to be our birthright. Stubbornly, we want what we need without having to change who we are, but that is impossible, for what we need is ourselves—our lost wholeness— which is attainable only through changing what we have become.

In the words of Wordsworth, we come into the world "trailing clouds of glory," but the fire is soon extinguished, and we lose sight of the fact that we are whole, spiritual beings. We live impoverished, repetitious, unrewarding lives and blame our partners for our unhappiness.

A man who attended a recent workshop said that "falling in love with my wife made me feel loved and accepted for who I was for the very first time. It was intoxicating.

But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. ...the moment you become conscious of your desire, and then fulfill it, it evaporates.

Stones don't walk.They're so perfect they've nowhere to go.

You may not have been born into success, but you were born to succeed.

The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

When Christ becomes all you need, you will find happy all around you, because he never disappoints.

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

If a man through his life became like an angel he would accomplish very little; the accomplishment which is most desirable for man is to fulfill the obligations of human life.

Besides this it is necessary that man, before starting his journey, realizes that he has fulfilled his duties, his duty to those around him and his duty to God. But one who considers his duty to those around him sacredly does his duty to God.